Have you dreamed that your teeth are falling out? Dreaming about teeth has a message and a meaning that may surprise you.
As a professional dream analyst and author of The Alchemy of Your Dreams, I help people gain insights about recurring patterns and symbols that appear in their dreams – and dreams about teeth are among the most common.
Dreams have been proven to help regulate negative emotions and process what is happening in our lives. In an earlier interview with TODAY.com, Adriane Soehner, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Pitt Sleep, Affective Neuroscience, and Development Lab, said dreams have a “functional” purpose , helping with “memory, emotional processing, and sensory processing.”
In my eyes, dreams are gifts, even the ones that scare us or make us uncomfortable, like dreams about snakes or teeth. To better understand your dreams, consider keeping a dream journal and writing down what you remember upon waking. Take into account not only the symbolism, but also how you feel in the dream.
Let’s take a look at what it means when missing molars show up in your dreams… or nightmares.
What do teeth mean in dreams?
Teeth represent our ability to communicate
As common dream symbols, teeth represent our ability to nourish ourselves and communicate.
When teeth appear in dreams, the dreamer should consider whether they are able to speak the truth and communicate effectively.
If teeth appear in your dreams in any scenario, ask yourself: Are you suppressing how you feel? Do you say what you mean? Do you show yourself as your true self? Do you act and speak with integrity or do you speak reactively?
This is a time to pay attention to how you are feeling and whether you are taking care of yourself.
They also symbolize fear
Different versions of dreams about teeth falling out can indicate an anxious mind. There may be something in your waking life that you need to address. It’s probably about losing some form of control or something of value.
These types of dreams could also mean that you are concerned about your appearance, growing older, or losing control over certain aspects of your life.
What is the meaning of different teeth dream scenarios?
If you dream that your teeth are falling out:
To dream that your teeth are falling out may indicate that you are feeling out of balance or self-sabotaging.
On a pragmatic level, teeth help us break down our food into bite-sized chunks so that we can actually digest our food properly. So if you have a dream in which you lose your teeth, you lose this ability.
In other words, is there a situation in your life where you feel like you can’t care for or support yourself? Is there an action you do that is not optimal for your health?
Your dream may be warning you of something spiritually out of balance in your life that needs to be addressed. Ask yourself what you can’t ‘chew’ or ‘are not allowed’ in your own life.
If you dream that your teeth are falling out one by one:
Teeth falling out in this pattern indicates a chain reaction for a dreamer. It is a message to pay attention to the consequences. What is the cause and effect that happens in the dreamer’s life?
This could be a sign to put things in order. Otherwise, there will be an effect that will cause you to lose something meaningful.
If you dream that your teeth fall out all at once:
This is a signal to pay attention to what feels catastrophic in your life. Without your teeth you can’t say what you need to say or groom yourself.
Maybe you’re afraid of something fundamental in your life and you need to come back to center and focus. Or you are told that you can avert a possible crisis.
If you dream that your teeth are crumbling:
If your teeth are crumbling in a dream, it can seem like everything is falling apart – or it certainly looks that way.
If the front teeth are crumbling, the problem may have more to do with appearance. If it is the molars or back teeth, the issue is more fundamental and symbolic.
If you dream that your teeth are cracking:
This is a message to pay attention to the cracks in the foundations of your life: relationships, work, food, communication.
If you dream that your teeth are bleeding:
This has more to do with the gums than with teeth. When people’s gums bleed, it indicates an underlying problem. The dream advises the dreamer to solve the problem before it becomes a problem. Also pay attention to what you feel like is pouring out of your life.
If you dream that your teeth are rotting:
Maybe you said something you regret. Maybe you have regrets not say something. Either way, there is something rotten in your life that you need to get rid of.
A cracked tooth can be repaired; a rotten tooth must be removed before the mouth can be removed to enter a state of well-being. If the tooth is rotten, think about what is rotting in your life to return to well-being.
If you dream that your teeth fall out at the dentist:
In this case, you may be solving a problem without an expert or authority. If you arrive at the dentist and the dentist is not the person who has to pull the tooth, it is the same as saying something is wrong. You yourself before an expert has to intervene.
In essence, you may be able to heal yourself.
If you dream that you have no teeth:
When someone looks in the mirror and has no teeth, the meaning is more about appearance: you are to look with yourself.
If you dream that you are wearing braces:
If the dreamer has braces in real life, the dream is negotiating something about that change.
If one does not have braces and does not need them, the dream is related to the idea of making things right. This can be related to physical appearance, but also to living spaces, relationships and communication.
If you dream that food is stuck in your teeth:
This could be due to nervousness about how you look or feeling embarrassed in front of other people.
If you dream of loose teeth:
It’s on the nose, but something has come loose on you. A situation you hoped for does not materialize. Or perhaps you have unexpectedly lost something valuable through no fault of your own, unlike rotten teeth, which you previously inflicted on yourself.
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This article was originally published on TODAY.com
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